"I hit the ground and within seconds, I was in puddles of blood," he said. "I was just so mad that this guy got me. It is not so much the emotions of getting shot but the emotions that I could have done more.”

He took off his shirt and wrapped his leg as tightly as he could until help arrived. He says two female off-duty police officers came to his aide and dragged him to safety. Gunderson says he would love to meet the two heroes who saved him to thank them.

“I did my best to help people and saw others doing the same thing,” he said. “People were doing whatever they could to help out… People were risking their lives to save my life.”

He added that “what I am trying to focus on is the good that I saw” and believes that the country can be united through such tragic events. He said he witnessed the “worst” of humanity by one person but also “witnessed the best by 30,000."